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pssh NICE TRY SCIENCE. You'll have to try a lot harder to trick me into exercising!

A fool doing research may conclude this to be a healthfood, given the sources they take in. For example, the packaging of the product.

"That's silly, who could ever trust the packaging?" -- well, someone who also suffers from that dunning-kruger effect right?

What if this product isn't for the benefit of the individual end-user, but for that of society.

Who hasn't felt looked down upon by a smug health-nut before?

I'm not sure how anyone could find version control funny.

'git' is the name of the command line interface. the VCS is technically called "git's monster"

That is a lot of docs.

for what it's worth, the compiler helps you find those breaking changes pretty quickly.

much better than having bugs sneak up on you in production

thanks!

90 percent of the internet is javascript

R Douglas Fields grossly misinterprets how much people are exposed to influences their behavior. "Something like 90 percent of the people in prison for violent crimes are men."

Something about all these people make them terrible humans, but it's not an adrenaline response. He's belittling all the social problems in his book by attributing them to neurological reflexes.

There's no way to test for who "deserves" basic income. As the means of generating and funneling wealth gets increasingly wrenched out of everyone's hands, it becomes a responsibility of a governing body to ensure everyone is okay.

Would terrorists be able to recruit a bunch of people who have all their needs taken care of and are able to pursue the work they want, even if the wages from it aren't high?

Would someone go out late at night to rob people, and risk getting shot themselves, when they have their rent, food, and needs met?

This needs to be universal. If you set up criteria that will only push the bottom further down. It'll create the opportunity for racist policy to make sure only the "good people" get aid.

This is amazing I didn't even realize.

You're my hero right now.

Yes, Alice is the 10x programmer.

Throughout my career I've definitely been lumping the skills described in this article about not doing work in with the whole "10x developer" catch phrase.

Like:

Customer needs a CMS.

Clyde looks at the requirements for the CMS. He sets off to write hundreds of thousands of lines of code by himself, complete with CI, continuous deployment, tests and documentation because he is a very good developer. Through the course of the project he leverages his years of experience and background in CS and engineering to make a well-factored body of software that will be maintainable for years. He did this in only a couple months.

Bob looks at the requirements for the CMS. He thinks "I know, I will use a good application framework and an ORM". Bob writes a couple thousand lines of code with all the tests and stuff that Clyde had. Bob's tests and app code, however, are more focused on the customer's needs, making in maintainable for anyone who can read the documentation of the software he's chosen to use. It takes him a couple weeks.

Alice looks at the requirements for the CMS. She realizes the customer will do just fine with Wordpress with a couple of tweaks. She sets up a hosted blog so nobody has to actually maintain it. She has better shit to do with her time.

Alice did the least work but that doesn't make her less productive. You're solving problems. If you do work to solve those problems, fine, but having more "output" doesn't make you go from a 1x to a 30x engineer.

If you want to learn foundational FP topics but don't have the time to commit to learning a whole new ecosystem, I really recommend Fogus's Functional Javascript: http://www.amazon.com/Functional-JavaScript-Introducing-Prog...

I know that JS isn't the same thing as Clojure but the ideas in this book work with really any language. After reading this book I'm a better Python programmer.

Given how many useless stickers I've been given at conferences this might go on for quite a while.

+1, parenthetical

Details of the procedure: "To do so, they joined rats in pairs by stitching together the skin on their flanks. After this procedure, called parabiosis, blood vessels grew and joined the rats’ circulatory systems. "

So the old and new rats were basically sewn together.

If you want to see what this looks like, here's a picture: http://www.viewzone.com/regen.miceduo.png

what is this, fonts for ants?

Ah... That's why I should read the entire article.

Bring on the Christmas.

Sure, but the other players are sitting on 500k as well, so the warm feelings of charity are a little lost.

I know right? I wish there was a recording of the talk-- the slides are glossing over something that was probably either in the QA or explained during.

"demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain"

0-Day? I knew I shouldn't have upgraded from primate.

I'm waiting for the buffalo buffalo port.

I will click on any article titled "<publications, tricks, advice> that <people in the software industry> should <grok, read, consume>"

"Like any good woman in power [...] she looks like a woman but acts like a man."

Rebecca Greenfield was _so close_ to praising Mayer on her career without completely debasing all female leaders in the world.

What about the other ethnicities?

This story was nearly a year old the day it was posted.

I want to hear about if the dirty old men have shut the hell up or not since then.

After reading Ender's Game over the weekend, I want to use this.